Edited by Vefa Erginbaş
Addressing the contested nature of Ottoman Sunnism from the 14th to the early 20th century, this book draws on diverse perspectives across the empire. Closely reading intellectual, social and mystical traditions within the empire, it clarifies the possibilities that existed within Ottoman Sunnism, presenting it as a complex, nuanced and evolving concept.
The authors in this volume rescue Ottoman Sunnism from an increasingly bipolar definition that seeks to present the Ottomans as enshrining a clearly defined orthodoxy, suppressing its contrasting heterodoxy. Challenging established notions that have marked the existing literature, the chapters contribute significantly not only to the ongoing debate on the Ottoman age of confessionalisation but also to the study of religion in the Ottoman context.
Contributors
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Chapter I: Introduction, Vefa Erginbaş
Chapter II: The Rise of the “Religion and State” Order: Re-Confessionalization of State and Society in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, Rıza Yıldırım
Chapter III: One Word, Many Implications: The Term “Kızılbaş” in the Early Modern Ottoman Context, Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
Chapter IV: Reappraising Ottoman religiosity in the last decades of the sixteenth-century: Mustafa Darir’s Siret and its Alid content, Vefa Erginbaş
Chapter V: Confessionalization or a quest for order? A comparative look at religion and state in the seventeenth-century Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Empires, Yasir Yılmaz
Chapter VI: From the Hamzavīyye to the Melamiyye: Transformation of an Order in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, F. Betül Yavuz
Chapter VII: Fabricating the Great Mass: Heresy and Legitimate Plurality in Harputlu İshak Efendi’s Polemics against the Bektāşī Order, Benjamin Weineck
Chapter VIII: The Ottoman Policy of "Correction of Belief(s)", Necati Alkan
Chapter IX: Some Reflections on the Fluidity of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in an Ottoman Sunni Context, John J. Curry
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